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Isaias 33:1

Woe to thee that spoilest, shalt not thou thyself also be spoiled? and thou that despisest, shalt not thyself also be despised? when thou shalt have made an end of spoiling, thou shalt be spoiled: when being wearied thou shalt cease to despise, thou shalt be despised.

Challoner: That spoilestThis is particularly directed to Sennacherib.

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine): Væ qui prædaris ! nonne et ipse prædaberis ? et qui spernis, nonne et ipse sperneris ? Cum consummaveris deprædationem, deprædaberis ; cum fatigatus desieris contemnere, contemneris.
Septuagint (Swete): Οὐαὶ τοῖς ταλαιπωροῦσιν ὑμᾶς, ὑμᾶς δὲ οὐδεὶς ποιεῖ ταλαιπώρους, καὶ ὁ ἀθετῶν ὑμᾶς οὐκ ἀθετεῖ· ἁλώσονται οἱ ἀθετοῦντες καὶ παραδοθήσονται, καὶ ὡς σὴς ἐφ᾽ ἱματίου οὕτως ἡττήσονται.
Hebrew (WLC): ה֣וֹי שׁוֹדֵ֗ד וְאַתָּה֙ לֹ֣א שָׁד֔וּד וּבוֹגֵ֖ד וְלֹא בָ֣גְדוּ ב֑וֹ כַּהֲתִֽמְךָ֤ שׁוֹדֵד֙ תּוּשַּׁ֔ד כַּנְּלֹתְךָ֥ לִבְגֹּ֖ד יִבְגְּדוּ בָֽךְ

Haydock's commentary

Spoilest. This is particularly directed to Sennacherib. (Challoner)

He was a figure of persecutors of the Church, to which many passages here allude. (Calmet)

Remota justitia quid sunt regna nisi magna latrocinia? (St. Augustine, City of God iv. 4.)

Sennacherib plundered Samaria and Juda, and despising God, was himself contemned. (Worthington)

From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.